Shaving-brush.



SHAVING BRUSH.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 26. 1919.

Patented Dec. 30, 1919.

ATTQRNEY UNITED DALMACIO rnanz Lorna, or SAN nroonns, cone SHAVING-BFJUSH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 30, 1919.

Application filed May 26, 1919. Serial No. 299,923.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DALMACIO PE'REz Lornz, subject of the King. of Spain, and resident of San Nicolas, in the Republic of Cuba, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shaving-Brushes, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to shaving brushes; and its object, briefly stated, is the provision of an improved brush of the fountain typein which the brush proper is removably connected directly to an ordinary cream tube, such arrangement having the distinct advantage that the brush can readily be detached not only when the tube becomes empty, but after each shaving operation has been completed, so that a fresh brush may be used for each individual customer, thereby insuring a high degree of sanitary service.

The invention also resides in the provision of a sanitary brush of the above character in which the attachment and detachment of the brush part may be easily and quickly effected and in which the said part is of simple and inexpensive construction.

An embodiment of the inventionis illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the complete brush;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the cream tube and its discharge nozzle;

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, but with the nozzle omitted; and

Fig. 4 is an enlarged vertical section of the brush element or brush proper, showing the discharge nozzle connected to the sleeve or stem'embedded in the brush brist es.

Referring more particularly to said drawing, 1 indicates an ordinary collapsible cream tube such as are now in common use, provided at one end with the usual externally-threaded nipple 2 and having its other end folded over and crimped, as indicated at 13.

The brush element 7 consists of a body of bristles or the like which are grouped at their inner ends around, and suitably fastened to, a tubular stem or sleeve 9, the rear portion of which is provided with internal threads 10.. The aforesaid bristle ends are encircled by a clamping ring or ca 8 which serves to bind them together and to keep them in place.

The tube and brush parts 1 and 7 are coupled together by means of a part or member 3 which, in addition to its coupling function, also constitutes the discharge nozzle for the cream. This part 3 comprises a tubular rear portion 4 formed with external and internal threads 11 and 12, and a tapering or conical front portion 6 terminating in an outlet 5, the internal diameter of the rear portion 4 being such as to enable that portion to be threaded upon the nipple 2 of the cream tube, while the external diameter of the said portion 4 is made substantially equal to the internal diameter of the brush stem 9.

In consequence of this construction, it is possible to screw the discharge nozzle 3 directly-upon the nipple 2, and then to insert said nozzle through the stem 9 and thereafter screw the two together, the length of the nozzle being sufiicientlygreater than that of the stem to permit its conical portion 6 to project beyond the stem end and into the bristles for a considerable distance, as represented in Fig. 4. The attachment of the various parts just mentioned may be readily and quickly effected and, similarly, said parts may e easily disconnected from one another. Hence it is possible after each time the brush is used, to'remove the brush proper and replace it by a fresh one, so that each customer may thus have a separate brush kept for his individual use. Also, an

exhausted tube may easi replaced by a full one.

I claim as my invention In a shaving brush, a brush element having an axially-arranged cylindrical stem embedded in it, said stem having its rear portion internally threaded; and a hollow member for detachably coupling said brush element to a cream tube, said coupling member being inserted through said stem and comprising a cylindrical rear portion hav ing external threads for engagement with the internal threads on the stem and internal threads for engagement With the external threads on the nipple of the cream tube, and a conical discharge portion projecting forwardly beyond said stem'into the bris tles.

Signed at Habana, in the Republic of Cuba this 2d day of May, A. D. 1919.

DALMACIO PEREZ LOPEZ.

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